Alaska Public Media

State’s high court rules against Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s herring claim

After over a year of consideration, the Alaska Supreme Court has sided with the state in a lawsuit over the management of the Sac Roe Herring fishery in Sitka. The five-justice panel upheld a 2021 ...
The Nation

This Tiny Fish Holds Together Ecosystems and Cultures—It’s Also Under Threat

Net positive? Paul Salomone, a fisheries management biologist, samples herring to help determine whether the fishery should be opened for the day. (Nathaniel Wilder) On a drizzly March afternoon in ...
Alaska Public Media

Sitka tourism documentary 'Cruise Boom' to debut on PBS

Summer tourists in Sitka, seen in the documentary "Cruise Boom." (Courtesy ArtChange, Inc.) Sitka-based filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein’s latest documentary, “Cruise Boom,” premieres nationwide Saturday ...
Homeland Security Today

Air Station Sitka Welcomes New Commanding Officer

A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter, distinctly adorned with stars depicting the Big Dipper and Polaris painted on the nose, rests in the Air Station Sitka hangar December 28, ...